Dates covered: December 15-21, 2014 (week 51 of 52) Career Rethink Your Hiring Criteria (via Jim Holmes) How to Future Proof Your Career with the Skills That Matter (via Lifehacker) Day 8 – From Operator to Guide: Lessons Learned Moving from Engineering…
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Professional Development – 2014 – Week 50
Dates covered: December 8-14, 2014 (week 50 of 52) Career A Tech Lead Paradox: Technical Needs vs. Business Needs (via The Morning Brew) Lazy Expert Syndrome: What Brought Down Al Capone Can Keep You On Top Of Your Game (via Cameron Presley) From…
Professional Year in Review (2014)
BVA v6.0 Shipped v6.0.3 of our flagship application; projected deadline set by the team was met, and the shipping product contained more features than were initially in-scope Incorporated hundreds of unit tests; addressed all tests marked as inconclusive so that…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 49
Dates covered: December 1-7, 2014 (week 49 of 52) Career Growing Developers (via Cameron Presley) The Dominant Leader Fallacy (via Eric Dietrich) How to Be an Effective Leader Even if You’re Shy (via Lifehacker) Lessons Learned Growing a Startup From Zero…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 24-30, 2014 (week 48 of 52) Communication 27 Pre-Written Templates For Your Toughest Work Emails (via Lifehacker) Use One Lunch Hour to Network Instead of Your Usual Routine (via Lifehacker) Culture Why Programmers Work at Night (from Shawn Wildermuth…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 47
Dates covered: November 17-23, 2014 (week 47 of 52) Culture Annihilating Complexity (via Eric Dietrich) The Power of Empathy (via Software Lead Weekly) The Value of Transparency (via Software Lead Weekly) How to Create a Great Intern Culture (via Software Lead Weekly) The…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 46
Dates covered: November 10-16, 2014 (week 46 of 52) Career Developer to Architect No, you are not ‘running late’, you are rude and selfish (via Cameron Presley) Beyond Event Hopping: How to Step Up Your Professional Networking (via Lifehacker) How to Respond…
Getting Started with Git and Bitbucket – Part 2
The previous post explained how to do basic manipulations of a Git repo and have a copy of that repo hosted on Bitbucket. In this post, I’ll explain how to use Git to facilitate a feature branch workflow. Creating a…
Getting Started with Git and Bitbucket – Part 1
This post is mainly for developers that have heard of Git and would like to take it for a test drive on a repository (repo) that isn’t public. My use case is that I don’t want to embarrass myself by having…
Professional Development – 2014 – Week 45
Dates covered: November 3-9, 2014 (week 45 of 52) Career Move Before You’re Ready: Get Started Without Being an “Expert” (via Lifehacker) Help, My Boss Sucks! (via Eric Dietrich) Culture Why I am leaving the best job I ever had (via…